"around half of Grant Morrison's were collected in: A series of paperbacks collecting all ""Future Shocks"" is being published by Rebellion starting in 2018: Tharg's Future Shocks Tharg's Future Shocks is the name given to a long-running series of short strips in the British weekly comic ""2000 AD"" in 1977. The name originates from the fictional editor of 2000 AD and the book titled ""Future Shock"", written by Alvin Toffler, published in 1970. The series began in issue 25 of ""2000 AD"" titled ""Tharg's Future Shocks"" in a single short story written by Steve Moore, who also created the format."
"before the government forced AT&T to break up. In the mid-1960s, the Tofflers began five years of research on what would become ""Future Shock"", published in 1970. It has sold over 6 million copies worldwide, according to the ""New York Times,"" or over 15 million copies according to the Tofflers' Web site. Toffler coined the term ""future shock"" to refer to what happens to a society when change happens too fast, which results in social confusion and normal decision-making processes breaking down. The book has never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages. He continued"
"book of futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler, ""Future Shock"", first published in 1970, which Pine and Gilmore quote in their work. The Tofflers discuss rapid change in American society and explore ways for humans to adapt. In Chapter 10, ""The Experience Makers"", they say that an economy is being created geared to the provision of psychic gratification, that a process of ""psychologization"" finds place and humans will strive for a better ""quality of life"". Manufacturers of goods will add a ""psychic load"" to basic products, the psychic component of services will expand and we will witness the raise of ""experience"
"Alvin Toffler Alvin Toffler (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. Toffler was an associate editor of ""Fortune"" magazine. In his early works he focused on technology and its impact, which he termed ""information overload."" In 1970 his first major book about the future, ""Future Shock"", became a worldwide best-seller and has sold over 6 million copies. He and his wife Heidi Toffler, who collaborated with him for most of"
"Rome which detailed the results of a computer simulation of the future based on economic and population growth. Public investment in the future was further enhanced by the publication of Alvin Toffler’s bestseller ""Future Shock"" (1970), and its exploration of how great amounts of change can overwhelm people and create a social paralysis due to “information overload.” International dialogue became institutionalized in the form of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), founded in 1967, with the noted sociologist, Johan Galtung, serving as its first president. In the United States, the publisher Edward Cornish, concerned with these issues, started the World"
"Third Wave"" and """". In the introduction to an essay entitled ""Future Shock"" in his book, ""Conscientious Objections"", Neil Postman wrote: ""Sometime about the middle of 1963, my colleague Charles Weingartner and I delivered in tandem an address to the National Council of Teachers of English. In that address we used the phrase ""future shock"" as a way of describing the social paralysis induced by rapid technological change. To my knowledge, Weingartner and I were the first people ever to use it in a public forum. Of course, neither Weingartner nor I had the brains to write a book called"
"The Shock Doctrine The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of ""shock therapy"". This centers on the exploitation of national crises to push through controversial policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted by disasters or upheavals to mount an effective resistance. The book suggests that some man-made events, such as the Iraq War, were"
"scope of units”, as well as the need to detach functions from current state boundaries, creating regions based on functions like water, transport, education and economics which might have “different ‘overlays’ on the map.” Alvin Toffler published ""Future Shock"" (1970) and ""The Third Wave"" (1980). Discussing the books in a later interview, Toffler said that industrial-style, centralized, top-down bureaucratic planning would be replaced by a more open, democratic, decentralized style which he called “anticipatory democracy.” Futurist John Naisbitt's 1982 book “Megatrends” was on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than two years and sold 14 million copies."
"Future Shock. Works deriving themes and elements from Future Shock include the science fiction novels ""The Forever War"" (1974) by Joe Haldeman, ""The Shockwave Rider"" (1975) by John Brunner, the RPG ""Transhuman Space"" (2002) by Steve Jackson Games, and the indie RPG """" (2006) by designer Joshua A.C. Newman. Experimental music group Death Grips use the lyric ""Culture shock, future shock, fuck yourself, choke yourself"" in their song ""Culture Shock"". The line ""You knocked a future shock crowbar upside my head"" occurs in the track ""The Outsiders"" on the alternative rock band R.E.M.'s 2004 album ""Around the Sun"". In 2011,"
"1970s sociologists and anthropologists like Alvin Toffler (author of ""Future Shock""), Daniel Bell and John Naisbitt have approached the theories of post-industrial societies, arguing that the current era of industrial society is coming to an end, and services and information are becoming more important than industry and goods. Some extreme visions of the post-industrial society, especially in fiction, are strikingly similar to the visions of near and post-Singularity societies. The following is a summary of the history of technology by time period and geography: During most of the Paleolithic – the bulk of the Stone Age – all humans had"
"The Futurological Congress The Futurological Congress () is a 1971 black humour science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. It details the exploits of the hero of a number of his books, Ijon Tichy, as he visits the Eighth World Futurological Congress at a Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica. The book is Lem's take on the common science fictional trope of an apparently Utopian future that turns out to be an illusion. The book opens at the eponymous congress. A riot breaks out, and the hero, Ijon Tichy, is hit by various psychoactive drugs that were put into the"
"numbers Klein supplied in her reply reveal the statistics in her central argument to be ""rubbish."" Reviews and interviews The Shock Doctrine The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of ""shock therapy"". This centers on the exploitation of national crises to push through controversial policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted by disasters or"
"Shock (novel) Shock is a novel written by Robin Cook in 2001. It is a medical science fiction woven around a fertility clinic that uses unethical means to get rich. The novel is about two friends ""Deborah Cochrane"" and ""Joanna Meissner"", both of whom are shown equally as protagonists. Joanna dumps her boyfriend Carlton Williams and finds herself in need of money to complete her studies. Her friend Deborah shows her a newspaper article about ""Wingate Clinic"" that is offering $45,000 for people willing to donate their eggs for infertile patients. The two friends decide to take the offer and"
"stories have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks: Two collections of Alan Moore's ""Future Shocks"" (""Alan Moore's Shocking Futures"") and ""Time Twisters"" (""Alan Moore's Twisted Times"") stories were released by Titan Books in 1986: The contents of those two volumes have been collected together into a single volume, along with additional material from Moore: Despite the title, this is not a complete collection of all ""Future Shock"" stories from the comic, only the Alan Moore stories in the 1986 and 1987 books described above. All the Future Shocks written by Peter Milligan, John Smith and Neil Gaiman and"
"to be compassionate and honest. Society needs people who work in hospitals. Society needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone."" His opinions about the future of education, many of which were in ""Future Shock"", have often been quoted. An often misattributed quote, however, is that of psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy: ""Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn."" Early in his career, after traveling to other countries, he became aware"
"System Shock (novel) System Shock is an original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry and is followed by the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel ""Millennium Shock"", also by Richards. It is 1998, and the information age is about to take off. However, mysterious events are plaguing London. A prominent spy is killed. A hostage situation is bizarrely resolved. The Doctor receives a computer disc from a dead man. And to top it all off, it seems that an alien race"
"covered by Herbie Hancock as the title track for his 1983 recording ""Future Shock"". That album was considered groundbreaking for fusing jazz and funk with electronic music. Stanley Clarke performed a song with the same title on his 1984 album Time Exposure. The rock band, BANG released ""Future Shock"" on their self titled Capitol Records release in 1972 In the 1974 movie ""The Parallax View"" the character Joe relates a story to Lee about a wife having an affair with her psychiatrist and then a bulldozer knocking down his house by calling it ""future shock"". Other works taking their title"
"Star Diaries"". The Futurological Congress The Futurological Congress () is a 1971 black humour science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. It details the exploits of the hero of a number of his books, Ijon Tichy, as he visits the Eighth World Futurological Congress at a Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica. The book is Lem's take on the common science fictional trope of an apparently Utopian future that turns out to be an illusion. The book opens at the eponymous congress. A riot breaks out, and the hero, Ijon Tichy, is hit by various psychoactive drugs that were put"
"build a thriller. Shock (novel) Shock is a novel written by Robin Cook in 2001. It is a medical science fiction woven around a fertility clinic that uses unethical means to get rich. The novel is about two friends ""Deborah Cochrane"" and ""Joanna Meissner"", both of whom are shown equally as protagonists. Joanna dumps her boyfriend Carlton Williams and finds herself in need of money to complete her studies. Her friend Deborah shows her a newspaper article about ""Wingate Clinic"" that is offering $45,000 for people willing to donate their eggs for infertile patients. The two friends decide to take"
"The Shockwave Rider The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word ""worm"" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network. It also introduces the concept of a ""Delphi pool"", perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market. The title derives from the futurist work ""Future Shock"""
"The overall production of goods and services doubles each 50 years in developed countries. Society experiences an increasing number of changes with an increasing rapidity, while people are losing the familiarity that old institutions (religion, family, national identity, profession) once provided. The so-called ""brain drain"" – the emigration of European scientists to the United States – is both an indicator of the changes in society and also one of their causes. The book has been reprinted several times: Curtis Mayfield's song ""Future Shock"" on the album ""Back to the World"" took its name from this book, and was in turn"
"The Müller-Fokker Effect The Müller-Fokker Effect is a satirical science fiction novel written by John Sladek in 1970. It has long been out of print in the United States, having come out in a Pocket Books edition in 1973. A reprint was done in 1990 by Carroll & Graf. The title is a pun with the insult ""motherfucker"", and the book itself is suffused with wordplay of all stripes. The time is ""somewhere in the near future"" from the 1970s, and Bob Shairp is a government worker for a project in which a human being's individual qualities can be stored"
"Future Shock (Herbie Hancock album) Future Shock is pianist Herbie Hancock's thirty-fifth album and a million-selling Platinum-certified disc. It was Hancock's first release from his electro-funk era and an early example of instrumental hip hop. Much of the album was initially composed by the team of avant-garde bassist and record producer Bill Laswell, and keyboardist and producer Michael Beinhorn, and played on tour by their group Material in 1982, as a precursor to recording the follow-up album to Material's ""One Down"" album (on which Whitney Houston was the lead singer on a cover of the Soft Machine song ""Memories""). Hancock"
"future, which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. In the entirely different genre of Gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his highly successful Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Immigrant authors played a major role in post-war literature. Doris Lessing (1919) from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), published her first novel ""The Grass is Singing"" in 1950, after immigrating to England. She initially wrote about her African experiences. Lessing soon became a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing right through the century, and won the Nobel prize for literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie (born"
"by cultural skepticism. Scientists and their expertise were looked upon with suspicion. In 1968, an immensely popular work, ""The Biological Time Bomb"", was written by the British journalist Gordon Rattray Taylor. The author's preface saw Kornberg's discovery of replicating a viral gene as a route to lethal doomsday bugs. The publisher's blurb for the book warned that within ten years, ""You may marry a semi-artificial man or woman…choose your children's sex…tune out pain…change your memories…and live to be 150 if the scientific revolution doesn’t destroy us first."" The book ended with a chapter called ""The Future – If Any."" While"
"Science fiction author John Brunner wrote ""The Shockwave Rider,"" from the concept of ""future shock."" The nightclub Toffler, in Rotterdam, is named after him. Accenture, the management consultancy firm, identified Toffler in 2002 as being among the most influential voices in business leaders, along with Bill Gates and Peter Drucker. Toffler has also been described in a ""Financial Times"" interview as the ""world's most famous futurologist"". In 2006 the ""People's Daily"" classed him among the 50 foreigners who shaped modern China, which one U.S. newspaper notes made him a ""guru of sorts to world statesmen."" Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang of"
"Future History (Heinlein) The Future History, by Robert A. Heinlein, describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century. The term ""Future History"" was coined by John W. Campbell, Jr. in the February 1941 issue of ""Astounding Science Fiction"". Campbell published an early draft of Heinlein's chart of the series in the March 1941 issue. Heinlein wrote most of the ""Future History"" stories early in his career, between 1939 and 1941 and between 1945 and 1950. Most of the ""Future History"" stories written prior to 1967 are collected in"
"Future Times Three Future Times Three () is a 1944 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of two scientists who invent a substance which if swallowed allows a man to time travel. They travel to the future, where humanity has branched into different species with their own particular tasks. The book was published in English in 1958, translated by Margaret Sansone Scouten. ""Future Times Three"" is the first novel to present the famous grandfather paradox of time travel. The book was adapted into the 1982 film ""Le Voyageur imprudent"". The film was directed by Pierre"
"The Population Bomb The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich (who was uncredited), in 1968. It warned of mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Fears of a ""population explosion"" were widespread in the 1950s and 1960s, but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience.""""' The book has been criticized since its publishing for its alarmist tone, and in recent decades"
"and design the opportunities, the person who was born into the right place and the right time with the right circumstances will leverage their circumstances to be part of Revolutionary Wealth, a theory put forward by Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock. For those born roughly between 1980 and the early years of 2000, their parents raised them with beliefs and a schooling experience suited for the Second Wave, the Industrial Era. It is possible that the schooling of this last generation of the 20th century made them unsuited for the economy of the 21st Century. The trade-off was of"
"who wrote ""On Thermonuclear War"" (1960), ""Thinking about the unthinkable"" (1962) and ""The Year 2000: a framework for speculation on the next thirty-three years"" (1967); Bertrand de Jouvenel, a French economist who founded Futuribles International in 1960; and Dennis Gabor, a Hungarian-British scientist who wrote ""Inventing the Future"" (1963) and ""The Mature Society. A View of the Future"" (1972). Future studies had a parallel origin with the birth of systems science in academia, and with the idea of national economic and political planning, most notably in France and the Soviet Union. In the 1950s, the people of France were continuing"
"Millennium Shock Millennium Shock is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Fourth Doctor and Harry, and is a sequel to Richards' Virgin Missing Adventures novel ""System Shock"". In late December 1999, the TARDIS materializes in the offices of Condef, a British defense contractor, and the Doctor interrupts a break-in. One of Condef's employees, George Gardner, discovers that the intruders were not stealing anything, but were instead installing chips from the company Silver Bullet Systems. The Doctor realizes that the gas used to"
"Future history A future history is a postulated history of the future and is used by authors of science fiction and other speculative fiction to construct a common background for fiction. Sometimes the author publishes a timeline of events in the history, while other times the reader can reconstruct the order of the stories from information provided therein. The term appears to have been coined by John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of ""Astounding Science Fiction"", in the February 1941 issue of that magazine, in reference to Robert A. Heinlein's ""Future History"". Neil R. Jones is generally credited as the"